> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:41 -0500, Jeff Mahoney wrote:> > > dmesg after modprobe tg3:> > tg3.c:v3.49 (Feb 2, 2006)> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0a:02.0[A] -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 201> > Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0.> > Dazed and confused, but trying to continue> > Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?> > tg3_test_dma() Write the buffer failed -19> > tg3: DMA engine test failed, aborting.> > You're getting an NMI during tg3_init_one() which means that the NIC is> probably bad. I did a quick test on the same version of the 5701 NIC> with the same tg3 driver and it worked fine.> > Please find out if the NIC is known to be bad. Thanks.

I wonder if this is how this platform informs the cpu of master-abortor target-abort cycles? It could maybe also be an IRQ routingproblem...